For leadership development to succeed, there are some key elements that drive continued learning and sustainable development such as insight, reiterated motivation, practical learning and accountability

Focusing on development of millennials as leaders with their diverse perspectives will be integral to leadership development as a whole

ost of us have heard the famous Confucius quote, “I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.”I like to extend this quote with another line:”I reflect and I learn.”

One of the ways people learn is by being exposed to cycles of “doing and reflecting “. We call this process ”action learning”. But as leadership development professionals, how do we design and implement powerful action learning experiences?

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For leadership development professionals the real impact of action learning lies in their ability to facilitate reflection

Across organization, HR has taken a lot of hits for not being up to par. In a recent survey conducted by Deloitte, only 8 percent of Indian CEOs rated their HR ( including Leadership Development) as fully prepared to reinvent themselves and deliver the required business impact, This is slightly higher than the global average of 5 percent, but is still low. These same CEOs rate the reinvention of HR as one of the Top 5 priorities. To us, this is a huge opportunity for HR, specifically in L&D. There is a need to come up with real strategies and approaches rather than arguing that HR and L&D have to better their reactions.

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HR should help the leaders ”buy” development the way they want to buy. NOT how you want to sell

study by the association for talent development found many of those born between 1980 and 2000 lacked “soft skills,” such as diplomacy and communication. As large number of millennials or Gen Y, move into the workplace, it is believed that businesses will be encountering a leadership development crisis.

The new leader’s Council and Virtuali have published a report which underscores the impact that changes in the workplace with a growth of 30 percent or more of millennials becoming the majority of workers.

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It is important to groom Millennials to take over responsibility in the best manner possible

he prime challenge of leadership is to bring together a group of diverse individuals and create an environment where they will work effectively towards common goals. Collective Leadership is more complicated than the abundant, oversimplified literature on collaboration you would have read about.

Today, new paradigms of organizational hierarchies are emerging and with it, new styles of leadership are becoming more acceptable. It is up to human capital specialist to confront these new challenges with new thinking.

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It is not only about sharing authority , but also accountability

Companies are keen on hiring candidates for their behaviour, attitude, problem-solving skills rather than the accolades on their CVs

he need for talent has been perennial and will always be there irrespective of the economic evolution in the recruitment function, organizations need for Indian Organizations to grow in a global landscape would be innovation. The key driver for Indian organizations to grow in a global landscape would be innovation

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

NAVIN CHUGH is the Senior Vice President & Managing Director at First Advantage

With leadership models going through a transition, there is a growing need for vertical leadership forces to come into play

oing by the change in model of leadership programmes, today , factors such as technology , pervasive information availability, low information arbitrage, shortening windows of opportunity , shifting of balance in power to the customer are all serving to demand increasing adroitness and accuracy of decision making. In our experience over the last 15 years of engaging with Leadership teams, there are four basic principles that come into play when we talk about deep development of Leadership Capacity:

• Real world connect • Journey, not an event • Interdependent Learning • Changing the tire on a running car

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Leadership Development July 2015

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